Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-06-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A NuluoLlldu NduiS 10
be constable in New Haven, Conn.
The year 4I6 A. d. dates the fall
Of the great Western Roman Empire.
Newark. New jersey, has lost its
last skating rink. The craze is COM
pletely dead there.
Paper types, or a large size. are
now made.
Stored electricity, for illumination
in railway cars. is in use on the Penn
sYlvania railroad.
in Kentucky last year nearly s.
100000 bushels more of corn were
raised than in 1855.
Tea, coffee and chocolate we're in
troduced into E1gland during the
reign Of Charles il.
The long iron bridge at Bismarck,
Dakota, contracts and expands eleven
inches by the heat and cold.
English colonies for settlement
around about Los Angeles, California,
are beng formed in England.
The town Of Kuly, in Austrian
Galicia, has been destroyed by fire,
and 1000 people made homeless.
Paris theatres are declared TO be
the most poorly managed in Europe as
to public comfort and convenience.
-Hoboken people talk Of organic.
ing a vigilance committee to rid the
town OF sneak thieves and burglars
"A pl-list in Ea5erton, Cape
Colony, recently played the piano FOR
twerty-fOur hours without q break.
Theatrical ventures Ol either side
of the Atlantic are sud To have cost
Lord LOlsdale $4,000 during the past
year.
The town Of Llanwen0g, Wales,
proposes to celebrate the QIsea's Ju-
bilee in grand style by buying q new
hearse.
A white owl few aboard a steamer
from Hull, England, while 80 miles
from land, recently, and was brought
to Boston.
"A marsh, the mud OF which Is
said to lie an excellent hair restOrer,
has been discovered near Princeton,
Kentucky.
The vintage Of California viii this
year amount to over i, 9,OGJU 200 gallons,
One-seventh OF which VIII be turned
snto brandy.
The State Library at HayT sburg is
stated TO contain about 81, eco volumes
and its actual value IS estimated to be
over 100000.
I'm Vera Cruz, it is stated, it takes
1O4 Mexican copper cents 20 maze q
! dollar, while % of them viii pass for
dollar in chihuahua.
"A crowd estimated to contain
5000 people. viewed tie hanging or a
culprit In Kentucky last week and was
harangued by hlm.
The Mexican army, when on a war
footing, has lG0, G63 msu, divided as
follows: Infantry, l3l %; cavalry, 2j,-
600, and artillery, $500.
Bank note engraving is said TO
have been carried to greater perfec-
tion in the United States thaa any
where else in the world.
The longest continuous railway
run now made is said to be that of the
new Saratoga limited, from New York
to Troy (l4S miles, without stop.
The largest insurance carried on
the life of any individual, insurance
men say, is that of 81, ,000, ,0OU on the
life of Dr.. HOstetter, o. Pittsburg.
The official legal adviser of New
York has advised the authorities of
that city that the brushing Of dust OF
rubbish already on the sidewalks into
the gutter is 10. Illegal.
An English agricultural paper tells
of duck whose egg-.aying record IS as
follows: In 1873 she laid 2II; in-4S7a~
143; III 1880, 14j; IN 1881, 15j; in 1882.
ST; in 1883. 80; total, 100.
DIR. c. Keller, Of Zurich, claims
that spiders perform an important
part In tie preservation OF forests by
defending the trees against the depre-
datiOn OF aphideS and insects.
"A family of suicides IS described
in the Foil 1IdN Gl-ctie-a father and
four of his children had each COM
mitted suicide while laboring under
attacks of temporary insanity.
The skull of an Indian child, with
4 string Of copper beads about the
neck, was recently uuearthed on the
beach at Ipswich, Massachusetts. The
teeth in the under jaw were perfect.
Boston, her annual educational
report for 1SSG shows, has 542 schools,
with an average attendance of nearly
a GOO pupils, and 1892 teachers. The
net expenditure for 1856 was 81, ,454,-
l23. ST.
The abolition OF slavery in the
British colonies was c0nsummated in
1893. Thus were emaacipated 500, 600
slaves, and e20, 100000 was aDprOpri-
ltel for the compensation of their
1t is now possible to construct
complete sewing machines at the rate
Of one every minute or sixty in one
hour; 300 watches IN a day; a reaper
every fifteen minutes or less, and one
locomotive in day.
-Wha!erS al WV ..,1tOri, Mass.
say that a result of the Interstate
commerce. law viii be resort to the
Did method Of bringing eargoes Of oil
and whalebOne from San Francisco
around Cape Horn.
"A shrewd piece OF swindling is re-
ported by the French papers as having
occurred at the races. Two men. an.
'arently of the bOOkmaker profession.
lad managed to pocket several hund-
ed francs on betting. when an Official
ooking person caused them to be taken
nd led of the ground, 10 the evident
egret of the bystanders. 1t was not
Oug, however, before It was found out
hat the pseudo policemen were in
eague with their supposed victims, and
ad only disappeared TO divide the
asy haul with them.
The amount annually spent by the
European countries to keep up their
rmies and naYIes is e1S1, 100 COO.
he amount spent by America is about
), 100000. Adding therefore the cost
)r war debts and armaments together,
will be seen that Europe pays 1894.
10000 and America els, ,0OO, 600 per
nnum- How possibly can Europe
ops to hold her own against her
rival, when She handf.
bps herself in the struggle for COM
erclal supremacy, with the stupend-
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